Here is some interesting reading... ( sounds like its scientific... but there's not much about the credentials of the writers)
'Cuddle hormone' Research links oxytocin and socio-sexual behaviors
Below is a section lifted from the full article:
"You first meet him and he's passable," Witt said of the phenomena. "The second time you go out with him, he's OK. The third time you go out with him, you have sex. And from that point on you can't imagine what life would be like without him."
"What's behind it?" she added. "It could be oxytocin."
Since the release of oxytocin can be classically conditioned, after repeatedly having sex with the same partner, just seeing that partner could release more oxytocin, making you want to be with that person all the more, and you bond, she said.
But just as oxytocin is linked to the positive aspects of bonding, Witt thinks there's every reason to suspect that pathological conditions - situations in which bonding breaks down or is established inappropriately -might well be linked to oxytocin, too.
see the full article at:
http://www.oxytocin.org/cuddle-hormone/index.html
Love is the drug
(RL = romantic love. PEA= "phenylethylamine, a kind of natural amphetamine that revs up the brain and the central nervous system. PEA causes the experience of euphoria, hyperventilation, increased heart rate, dilated pupils, and secretions of odours that can seduce an unsuspecting love object. The eye of the chemical storm is in the brain."
So what, chemically speaking, is happening to the lovesick - the jilted, the jealous? The lover needs the constant fix of encounters with the love object to satisfy and dampen the excitation of those cataracts of PEA; any thwarting ("I can't get no-o... satis-faction!") can only lead to further drenching of PEA, resulting in even more drastic loss of serotonin. This explains the highs and lows of the lovesick, the out-of-control symptoms of possessiveness, goose pimples, butterflies in the stomach, restlessness, inability to concentrate, sleeplessness: that generalised delicious agony called infatuation.
But should RL be reciprocated, there follows the second stage: sexual fulfilment, in which the hormone testosterone becomes rampant in men, and also in women, especially at ovulation and even beyond the menopause. When actual contact with the love object occurs - stroking, love play, kissing, leading eventually to coitus - a heady hormone identified as oxytocin explodes like a firework display in the brain, releasing showers of natural opiates known as endorphins, a kind of natural crack: a mega-reward! At orgasm a man's oxytocin levels can increase by a factor of five. In women the oxytocin levels can be even higher during intercourse. Oxytocin, moreover, combines with the hormone vasopressin, which is associated with vivid emotional memories, visual, tactile, aural and nasal, consolidating the image and associated deep feelings for the love object. That piece of music, that particular scent, the purr of their voice, the shape of that nose exciting so much passion. The oxytocin highs, with their consequent endorphin hits, do much to explain the withdrawal symptoms when the love object goes cold and, worst of all, is seen in the arms of another. Small wonder psychiatrists have likened disappointed love to acute depression.
see the full article at:
http://www.sensualism.com/love/druglove.html
'Cuddle hormone' Research links oxytocin and socio-sexual behaviors
Below is a section lifted from the full article:
"You first meet him and he's passable," Witt said of the phenomena. "The second time you go out with him, he's OK. The third time you go out with him, you have sex. And from that point on you can't imagine what life would be like without him."
"What's behind it?" she added. "It could be oxytocin."
Since the release of oxytocin can be classically conditioned, after repeatedly having sex with the same partner, just seeing that partner could release more oxytocin, making you want to be with that person all the more, and you bond, she said.
But just as oxytocin is linked to the positive aspects of bonding, Witt thinks there's every reason to suspect that pathological conditions - situations in which bonding breaks down or is established inappropriately -might well be linked to oxytocin, too.
see the full article at:
http://www.oxytocin.org/cuddle-hormone/index.html
Love is the drug
(RL = romantic love. PEA= "phenylethylamine, a kind of natural amphetamine that revs up the brain and the central nervous system. PEA causes the experience of euphoria, hyperventilation, increased heart rate, dilated pupils, and secretions of odours that can seduce an unsuspecting love object. The eye of the chemical storm is in the brain."
So what, chemically speaking, is happening to the lovesick - the jilted, the jealous? The lover needs the constant fix of encounters with the love object to satisfy and dampen the excitation of those cataracts of PEA; any thwarting ("I can't get no-o... satis-faction!") can only lead to further drenching of PEA, resulting in even more drastic loss of serotonin. This explains the highs and lows of the lovesick, the out-of-control symptoms of possessiveness, goose pimples, butterflies in the stomach, restlessness, inability to concentrate, sleeplessness: that generalised delicious agony called infatuation.
But should RL be reciprocated, there follows the second stage: sexual fulfilment, in which the hormone testosterone becomes rampant in men, and also in women, especially at ovulation and even beyond the menopause. When actual contact with the love object occurs - stroking, love play, kissing, leading eventually to coitus - a heady hormone identified as oxytocin explodes like a firework display in the brain, releasing showers of natural opiates known as endorphins, a kind of natural crack: a mega-reward! At orgasm a man's oxytocin levels can increase by a factor of five. In women the oxytocin levels can be even higher during intercourse. Oxytocin, moreover, combines with the hormone vasopressin, which is associated with vivid emotional memories, visual, tactile, aural and nasal, consolidating the image and associated deep feelings for the love object. That piece of music, that particular scent, the purr of their voice, the shape of that nose exciting so much passion. The oxytocin highs, with their consequent endorphin hits, do much to explain the withdrawal symptoms when the love object goes cold and, worst of all, is seen in the arms of another. Small wonder psychiatrists have likened disappointed love to acute depression.
see the full article at:
http://www.sensualism.com/love/druglove.html




